[4] In general, courts have straddled this issue by rejecting
PAS as a syndrome, but frequently finding that one parent has engaged in alienating behavior in some cases or that the other parent engaged in abusive behavior or poor parenting in others.
It is far too common to hear mental health and legal professionals routinely dismiss
PA as a syndrome.
Not exact matches
This seems a positive step given that some professional
PA skeptics have misguidedly focused on the issues surrounding «
syndrome»
as a means of denying
PA behaviors and circumstances which can exist outside of current clinical parameters.
More recently, credible efforts have been made to remove «
syndrome» and refer to the entire issue
as parental alienation (
PA).
For example, in the literature on child resistance, there continues to be an ongoing debate of the use of terms such
as parental alienation
syndrome (
PAS), parental alienation disorder, and parental alienation (Gardner, 1998; Bernet, 2010; Darnell, 2010).
The court personnel must not only be made aware that
PAS is not recognized
as a valid medical
syndrome by the AMA and the APA, but that use of this dubious
syndrome as a means of removing custody from fit mothers alleging abuse will not be kept quiet.
1989, have noted that there has been no claim of general professional acceptance of
PAS as a tool for diagnostic evaluation, and in fact that there is no consensus by experts that such a
syndrome even exists.
The term parental alienation
syndrome (
PAS), first described by Richard Gardner, is also sometimes referred to
as «brainwashing.»
Advocates against child abuse, such
as Carol Bruch, have reacted strongly to
PAS by saying that there is no such «
syndrome,» and instead it is often seen
as the rejected parent's (usually the father's) own abusive behavior which caused the child to appropriately feel estranged from that parent, including: child sexual abuse, physical abuse, or simply extremely poor parenting.
Reluctance to Verify
PAS as a Legitimate
Syndrome — Janelle Burrill
As discussed elsewhere the distinction is that
PAS was thought to have only one cause, hence the use of the term «
Syndrome».
Hostile Aggressive Parenting is the pattern of behavior that leads to a psychological or social condition known
as Parental Alienation
Syndrome (
PAS).
The
syndrome, parental alienation (
PAS),»
as it is now called, is not a new one, but its importance is being highlighted in the United States
as well
as in the UK.
Parental alienation (
PA) is the act of deliberately alienating a child from a targeted parent (TP) by an alienating parent (AP) and can cause a psychological condition referred to
as parental alienation
syndrome (
PAS).
The Parental Alienation
Syndrome (
PAS)
as formulated by Gardner involves a cluster of child symptoms in divorce.
This three - part article reviews the literature on the Parental Alienation
Syndrome (
PAS)
as formulated by Dr. Richard Gardner and seeks to integrate his work with research on high conflict divorce and the work of other professionals in this arena.
Although the «parental alienation
syndrome» was only first described in 1985 (Gardner, 1985), the question arises
as to whether
PAS has always been evident in the divorcing population, but unrecognized, or whether it is a recent phenomenon, perhaps increasing in prevalence.
At its most extreme, when a child completely rejects the targeted parent, the result is referred to
as severe alienation or parental alienation
syndrome (
PAS)(Gardner, 1998).
Some have suggested that instead of
PAS or GAS, we should use the term Family Alienation
Syndrome (FAS) in order to cover all who have become alienated
as a result of an active campaign by family members.
Parental alienation
syndrome (
PAS) is the term used to describe children who are alienated (
as opposed to estranged).
Under the
PAS proposal of a «new
syndrome,» resting
as it does on poorly defined theoretical foundations, mental health professionals are allowed to say, «I don't believe in parental alienation» and this is acceptable.
In association with this burgeoning of child - custody litigation, we have witnessed a dramatic increase in the frequency of a disorder rarely seen previously, a disorder that I refer to
as the parental alienation
syndrome (
PAS).
Actually,
PA can be viewed
as a group of
syndromes, which share in common the phenomenon of the child's alienation from a parent.
As is true of other
syndromes, there is in the
PAS a specific underlying cause: programming by an alienating parent in conjunction with additional contributions by the programmed child.
Now,
as I mentioned earlier, the title of your book is «Adult Children of Parental Alienation
Syndrome» and to me that suggests that the effects of
PAS linger on into adulthood.
Many evaluators and clinicians include Parental Alienation (
PA)
as well
as Parental Alienation
Syndrome (
PAS) in the same category when discussing this topic.
To refer to
PA as a group of
syndromes would, by necessity, lead to the conclusion that the
PAS is one of the
syndromes subsumed under the
PA rubric and would thereby weaken the argument of those who claim that
PAS is not a
syndrome.
There is growing interest in a less ‐ well ‐ known type of emotional child abuse known
as Parental Alienation
Syndrome (
PAS).
He was first to identify the eight characteristics that
PAS children display
as a
syndrome.
It was coined in the 1980s by Dr. Gardner,
as Parental Alienation
Syndrome (
PAS).